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Become an EDM Producer

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Overview

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An EDM music producer understands the need to stay current with the latest musical trends, software, sounds, production techniques, and business fundamentals. This path will help you build a strong foundation in the latest EDM production techniques.
  • Master foundational audio concepts.
  • Learn time tested recording and mixing techniques.
  • Discover the roles and responsibilities of a music producer.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Audio and Music Production Careers: First Steps
-Learn about the jobs, equipment, DAWs, and training you need to get started down an audio learning path.

Course 2: The Business of Songwriting: First Steps
-Get started in the business of songwriting. Learn about all of the major organizations, rights, and procedures that songwriters have to deal with in the music business.

Course 3: Ableton Live 10 Essential Training
-Learn how to create, record, edit, mix, and produce your musical projects using Ableton Live 10.

Course 4: Learning Songwriting: Ableton Live
-Learn how to capture your musical ideas quickly and turn them into great songs with Ableton Live.

Course 5: Ableton Live 9: Programming Beats
-Learn how to make beats for house, dubstep, drum and bass, juke, trap, and hip-hop tracks, with Ableton Live.

Course 6: MASCHINE: Beat Making
-Producer JK Swopes demonstrates how to create beats using MASCHINE's built-in sounds, expansions, and samples.

Course 7: Demystifying Audio Synthesis: The Basics
-Learn how synthesis actually works, how to sculpt sound with filters and envelopes, and how to craft your own synth patches, including leads, pads, drums, and bass.

Course 8: Demystifying Audio Synthesis: Beyond The Basics
-Move beyond the basics of synth programming, and learn techniques for creating big moving basslines, evocative percussion patterns, and rich synth pads.

Course 9: MASSIVE: Digital Synthesis
-Learn how to create out of this world sounds with MASSIVE, using its flexible and powerful filters and routing, audio processing, and modulation features.

Course 10: EDM Production Techniques: Drums
-Learn how to create super-pro drum sounds for electronic dance music (EDM) productions.

Course 11: EDM Production Techniques: Basslines
-Learn how to create super-pro basslines for your electronic dance music (EDM) tracks.

Course 12: EDM Production Techniques: Extreme Sound Mangling
-Make electronic dance music that stands out with these extreme sound-mangling techniques. Learn how to use vocoders, flangers, distortion, and more, to create a unique sound.

Course 13: Mixing an EDM Track
-Learn how to mix a solid EDM track from raw material with Dave Darlington's Grammy-winning techniques.

Course 14: Advanced EDM Mixing
-Learn advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment, to make your tracks sound fat, wide, and full.

Course 15: A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
-Discover how to turn song ideas and rough recordings into complete, polished tracks, with music producer Evan Sutton's patented music production workflow.

Courses

Taught by

Garrick Chow, Rick Schmunk, Yeuda Ben Atar (Side Brain), JK Swopes, Scott Hirsch, Evan Sutton, Jesse Scott, Dave Darlington and Colin E. Fisher

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